After absorbing that bowl of the Red Dust Anchor, laden with the warmth of mortal life and the prayers of all living beings, the ultimate way of simplicity source within Chu Qing completely shed the coldness and hollowness peculiar to higher-dimensional laws. Warm divine radiance, interwoven with purple-gold and pale red, flowed across the Eternal Heavenly Palace. Its prow, sharp as a celestial spear, smashed through the dead, transparent waters remaining in the Abyss of Meaninglessness and surged boldly into the heart of the Origin River's middle reaches.
The instant it entered these new waters, the barriers of space on either bank began to tremble violently. The roaring river was no longer formless, but turbid as lead and mercury. Every wave that towered ten thousand feet high carried countless terrifying phantoms of collapsing galaxies and wailing living beings. This was the second trial the Origin River placed before all who sought the source-the "ancient causal flood"!
The corpses of civilizations from three thousand cataclysm epochs lay deposited here. Every universe the higher-dimensional Creator had torn apart like a rough draft had unleashed endless resentment before its death. Those resentments, unfulfilled obsessions, and fractured ancient histories had all been dumped into the river's middle reaches, becoming a destructive torrent of mud and rubble capable of scouring any Daluo Golden Immortal into the dust of history.
Rumble-!
Lead-black waves churned sky-high. The resentful, baleful energies of three thousand epochs rapidly condensed directly before the Heavenly Palace, forming an ancient undead giant whose head reached the heavens and whose feet stood upon the earth. He was no individual being, but an amalgamation of resentment and baleful intent, pieced together from the severed arms and remnant souls of countless immortal emperors and divine sovereigns from the final generations of shattered epochs. He called himself